Fareveil · Flight search
Flight search
One panel, one outside search service, and the whole arrangement written out before you use it.
How this works, plainly. The panel sits on the front page, and the search behind it is run by an outside booking service, not by us. Any flight chosen there is booked and paid for on that service, under its own terms. If a trip is booked after a search that started here, this publication may receive a commission from that service. What a reader pays is the same either way, and the commission never changes which results come back.
The panel itself sits on the front page, below the writing, and the note beside it says in short form what this page says at length. A reader deciding whether to type anything into a search box is entitled to know exactly who receives it and when.
What the panel is, and what it is not
The fields are this site's own. They are ordinary markup served from this domain, and the airport suggestions that appear as you type come from a list file shipped with the site rather than from a live call to anyone. Up to the moment the search button is pressed, nothing you have typed has gone anywhere.
Pressing it is the handover. The browser leaves for a booking desk answered by an outside travel service, carrying the route, the dates, the cabin and the number of travellers. Everything from that point on is theirs: the results, the ranking, the fares, the checkout, the terms and the privacy policy.
This publication does not sell tickets, take payments, hold reservations, change bookings, issue boarding passes or act for any airline. Nothing typed into the panel creates any obligation on the part of Fareveil House LLC, and this publication is not a party to whatever contract you end up making.
The commission, stated plainly
If a search that started here leads to a completed booking with that service, the service may pay this publication a commission.
Three things follow from that, and all three are worth stating.
- What you pay does not change. The commission comes out of the service's own margin. There is no version of the same trip that is cheaper because you avoided this page.
- The results are not tilted. Ranking and pricing are the booking service's. There is no arrangement here that favours a particular airline or route, and no airline pays this publication anything.
- It funds the writing, not the other way round. No piece on this site exists to move readers towards a booking. The editorial pages carry no prices, no partner links and no booking prompts, and the front page opens on writing rather than a search box.
What happens to what you type, and when
Worth reading before you use it, because the timing is the part most sites leave vague.
Typing sends nothing. The suggestions are matched against a list that travels with the site, so a reader can fill the panel in completely, change their mind and close the tab without any outside company learning that the panel exists.
Pressing search sends one line: where from, where to, the dates, the cabin and how many are travelling. From then on the booking service receives that search along with the technical details any web request carries, such as your address on the network and your browser type, and it sets its own storage in your browser and handles all of it under its own policy.
This publication does not receive your searches, does not see the results you were shown and does not learn whether you booked anything. What arrives here is aggregate commission reporting from the service, which says that bookings happened, not who made them.
No page on this site loads anything from anybody. If the search button is never pressed, no outside service is contacted at all. The storage page sets this out item by item and the privacy notice covers the rest.
Why it is one panel and not a strip on every page
A publication that puts a booking form at the top of every page has quietly become something else. The writing starts serving the form, and eventually the form is the product.
Keeping the search to a single panel, placed below the opening of the front page and repeated nowhere, is a deliberate limit. The front page opens with a photograph and an essay. The sections open with writing. The pieces have no booking prompts in them, no partner links and no prices. If the panel were removed tomorrow, nothing else on the site would need rewriting, which is a decent test of whether the balance is right.
Using it well
Practical notes, from the same person who writes everything else here.
Check the airport, not just the city. Several southern cities are served by more than one field, and an hour saved in the air can be lost twice over on the ground afterwards.
Move the dates around before you settle. Departure day matters more than most people expect, and the flexible date view usually shows that faster than guessing does.
Read the fare conditions on the service's own page. What is included, what a change costs and whether a bag is carried are the details that turn a good looking option into an expensive one. Those rules belong to the airline and the service, and they are the ones that bind you.
Then plan the morning. Arriving somewhere at midday and expecting first light the following morning is the ordinary case, and the practice notes cover what that first morning actually needs.
If something goes wrong with a booking
Contact the service you booked with, or the airline that holds the ticket. They are the ones with the reservation and the money.
This desk cannot cancel, change, refund or look up a booking, because it never had access to one. That is not a policy choice that could be waived on request, it is simply the shape of the arrangement. Where readers write in about a problem, the only useful thing this desk can do is say who actually holds the reservation.
Questions about all of this
The questions page answers the common ones, the independence page covers the limits in full, and anything still unclear can go to the desk. If something on this page reads as vague, that is a fault worth reporting, because this is the one subject on the site where vagueness would be a real problem.